When a CFO is tasked with transforming a finance team, it’s the type of opportunity that may come along only once or twice in a finance leader’s career. For Carol Lowe, CFO, Sealed Air Corp., it was a lot of hard work and “a tremendous amount of fun” because, as she explains, “There’s nothing like […]
Integrating Customer-Centric Analytics Into Finance, Mike Picchi, CFO, Allconnect
Not since corporate boards first formulated the modern C-suite has the leadership reach of a C-suite member been more fluid than today within the ranks of Chief Financial Officers. “Don’t be left behind” are the determined words that now lead growing numbers of finance professionals to expand their influence beyond the realm of traditional accounting […]
My 2016 Priorities: Robbie Sprechman, CFO, Fierce Brands
What are your priorities as a finance leader over the next 12 months? Robbie: Well, I would say that there are a couple of things going on right now. We’re trying to work with insurance companies to get more reimbursements of memberships at the gym. Already there currently are a lot of big carriers that […]
My 2016 Priorities: Johanna Richman, CFO, ASPCA
What are your finance leader priorities over the next 12 months? Johanna: Over the next 12 months, would like to get my team to understand the different business operations in other areas of our organization to a larger extent. I also want to build APIs and dashboards that will help each area of the organization […]
Have you had to reorganize your finance organization? Johanna Richman, CFO, ASPCA
Adding Manufacturing Capability Inside the U.S. Market, Didier Aziza, CFO, Bel Brands USA
My 2016 Priorities: Didier Aziza, CFO, Bel Brands, USA
Over the next 12 months, what are your priorities as a finance leader? Didier: As you understood, growth is a priority for Bel Brands, so here I’m really working with my team to best determine how the finance can contribute to fuel the growth and really help our growth drivers, who are sales and marketing […]
The 8th Role of the CFO: How Customer Success Became Your CFO’s Magic Ring
Make no mistake, it’s a face-off that pits corporate finance leaders, the back-office number-crunching set – who at times seem more like nerdy comic book figures than true strategy-minded captains of industry – against a ticking clock intent on rendering the latest class of finance leaders irrelevant. You may recall that in our last post, […]
What Advice do you Have for Future Finance Leaders? Kray Kibler, CFO, Scrip Companies
My 2016 Priorities: Dave Cone, CFO, Taylor Morrison
What are your priorities as a finance leader over the next 12 months? Dave Cone: It really is managing through the integration of the new companies we acquired. Digesting those businesses, bringing them into the fold, trying to drive the synergies that we expect, and then really helping to refine our processes in finance, as […]
My 2016 Priorities: Tom Stewart, CFO, SecureAuth
Over the next 12 months, what are your top priorities as a finance leader? Tom Stewart: My top priority is always to keep the company funded so that we can continue to grow. And I believe I have that well in hand, so what I really need to focus on is making sure that […]
Why Customer Success is Requiring CFOs to Take a Leadership Leap
As data mining around customer interaction becomes the new nectar of the metric-minded number-crunching set – it’s time for CFOs to influence C-suite decision making . What if an emerging class of new data mining tools and metrics promised to unlock untold revenues for your organization—but, members of the C-suite determined that the team of […]